This was a "glorified sketch" I'd prepared with John Conway for his "All Yesterdays" presentation, about new insights on how dinosaurs might have looked. Too bad my real-life affairs kept me from participating further into this project.

Here, I'm speculating on possible wattles, scales and fleshy bits that might adorn the face of Majungasaurus, a majorly weird abelisaur. Majungasaurus also possessed a bony dome on top of its skull, here I imagined this structure as the base of a big, keratinous helmet-horn.

Another speculation I entertained was the possible use of abelisaurs' tiny arms for intra-spesific displays.

Heh. Aye, it seems to fall into that area of "nothing says it could, but nothing says it couldn't" btw, love the wattles. I never see those on dinosaur reconstructions, with the exception of the occasional spinosaurid for some reason.I've recently been thinking of bioluminescant patches on ceratopsian frills. It's pretty out there I know, but I don't think the fossil evidence says it's impossible, and it'd just be a total trip, seeing frills light up like lightning bugs. lol.

I'm also curious about the integument of the snout - the weird, pitted bone there suggests something might be anchored to the it, I wonder if it was covered in beak-like slabs of keratin, intense, acne-like scutes, or fleshy folds of skin, like a turkey. Of course it might always be "blank" and pretty regular.

Nice job, nemo. Love it. So what are some of the other animals of All Yesterdays? I've heard of the tree-climbing protoceratops, the wobbegong-like plesiosaurs, and the majungasaur. What else are there?